Tuesday, 25 July 2006

MANSION Seeks Sun

MANSION, a Poker, Casino, Sports Exchange and Sportsbook online gaming site, has selected Sun Microsystems to support the overhaul of its IT systems and increase the reliability, scalability and performance for MANSION’s high traffic online business.

MANSION intends on cutting sizeable amount from their operating costs by using the new Sun servers. The number of racks required due to the smaller footprint, as well as cooling costs due to the low heat emitted from the CoolThreads servers is predicted to fall after the venture kickstarts. Previously, applications were made to run on a single server, which lead to over-provisioning, as they had to provision based on peak capacity. With the Solaris Containers features in Solaris 10, they can now virtualize the IT resources and dynamically allocate things like CPS power and memory to each server. "This translates to zero wastage of IT resources," said David Kinsman, Chief Operating Officer for MANSION.

"The selection will see MANSION running a seamless and highly profitable infrastructure equipped to deal with the high traffic and transactions required from a leading online betting and gaming site" said Lionel Lim, president, Asia South, Sun Microsystems

MANSION will be working with Sun Microsystems and its partners including Tech Mahindra - Systems Integrator, Oracle, BEA and Interwoven, to deploy a new version of MANSION.com along with the rest of it's applications by February 2007.